Give Me a Break: Marketing as Patriotism Dept. 0
(Full disclosure: I did not serve in Viet Nam because of a high lottery number. I had decided that, if drafted, I would go and not flee to Canada, though I considered then and consider now that the Viet Namese War was a fraud and a lost cause–as it proved to be. Kinda like this War in Iraq.)
Romney, who did not serve in Vietnam due to his Mormon missionary work and a high draft lottery number, was asked the question by an anti-war activist after a speech in which he called for “a surge of support” for U.S. forces in Iraq.
Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, also saluted a uniformed soldier in the crowd and called for donations to military support organizations. Last week, he donated $25,000 to seven such organizations.
“The good news is that we have a volunteer Army and that’s the way we’re going to keep it,” Romney told some 200 people gathered in an abbey near the Mississippi River that had been converted into a hotel. “My sons are all adults and they’ve made decisions about their careers and they’ve chosen not to serve in the military and active duty and I respect their decision in that regard.”
It is so easy to fight a war with other persons’ children and wives and husbands and brothers and sisters and parents, is it not?
